IPC launches reporting form for MvPI to ensure safety of medical devices

The release of adverse events reporting form for medical devices is the first step towards ensuring safe medical devices and seamless reporting of adverse events due to medical devices in India.ETHealthWorld | Updated: April 15, 2016, 11:39 IST

New Delhi : The reporting form for materiovigilance programme of India (MvPI) was launched today by the Indian pharmacopoeia commission on the fifth anniversary of pharmacovigilance program. This is to ensure safety of medical devices.

The program of materiovigilance has just begun and the release of adverse events reporting form for medical devices is the first step towards ensuring safe medical devices and seamless reporting of adverse events due to medical devices in India. The reporting form has undergone a series of scientific consultations, stakeholder meetings with industry and inputs from scientists and technologists across the country. The reporting form will now be included in the toolkit which would be shared with the proposed materiovigilance centres in India.

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